How much does Medicare pay for CPT 17107?

Medicare allowed an average of $450.14 per service and paid $348.19 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1088.53, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 17107?

Destruction of birthmark, 10.0-50.0 sq cm. It was billed 1,414 times to 745 Medicare beneficiaries by 14 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 17107 most?

Dermatology, with 1,295 services from 10 clinicians. Next are Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Otolaryngology.

CPT 17107

Destruction of birthmark, 10.0-50.0 sq cm

$450.14Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,414 services

Providers submitted

$1088.53

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$450.14

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$348.19

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1088.53 for this code and Medicare allowed $450.14 — 2.4× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $348.19 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,414
Beneficiaries: 745
Providers billing it: 14
Total allowed: $636,498

What Medicare pays for CPT 17107

Across 1,414 services billed by 14 providers to 745 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $450.14 per service. That is 1.9 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 17107

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	1,295	651	$456.01	10
Nurse Practitioner	57	47	$391.54	1
Physician Assistant	27	21	$391.50	1
Otolaryngology	21	13	$348.51	1
General Surgery	14	13	$411.61	1

17107 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	661	$456.39	$332.57	7
Texas	645	$451.25	$335.69	2
North Carolina	28	$415.77	$326.51	1
Mississippi	24	$406.23	$323.78	1
Michigan	21	$348.51	$284.82	1
Puerto Rico	21	$442.73	$351.50	1
Indiana	14	$411.61	$349.63	1

Related codes

17110Destruction of skin growth$103.02
17111Destruction of skin growth$124.75
17108Destruction of birthmark$622.98
17106Destruction of birthmark$346.13

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.